"Preface" [2017] ELECD 1491; in Van der Wilt, Harmen; Paulussen, Christophe (eds), "Legal Responses to Transnational and International Crimes" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) ix

Book Title: Legal Responses to Transnational and International Crimes

Editor(s): Van der Wilt, Harmen; Paulussen, Christophe

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781786433985

Section Title: Preface

Number of pages: 4

Extract:

Preface
In the past few years, attention for the interaction between transnational
and international crimes has only grown. Take the example of terrorism;
while it is conceded that attaching the label `international crime' to
terrorism is not entirely uncontroversial ­ although the late Antonio
Cassese would disagree ­ the nexus between terrorism and transnational
crimes has increasingly been put on the international agenda. One such
instance is UN Security Council Resolution 2195, in which the Council
expressed:

concern that terrorists benefit from transnational organized crime in some
regions, including from the trafficking of arms, persons, drugs, and artefacts
and from the illicit trade in natural resources including gold and other
precious metals and stones, minerals, wildlife, charcoal and oil, as well as
from kidnapping for ransom and other crimes including extortion and bank
robbery.

A few months later, in the Summer of 2015, the Executive Director of the
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Yury Fedotov
stated that his organisation had launched a comprehensive initiative to
address the growing nexus between terrorism and organised crime and, in
2016, Europol established its European Counter Terrorism Centre. In the
mandate of this new centre, the crime­terror nexus can also be identified,
as the centre:

will focus on tackling foreign fighters, sharing intelligence and expertise on
terrorism financing (TFTP and support by the FIU.net), online terrorist
propaganda and extremism (Internet Referral Unit), illegal arms trafficking
and international cooperation to increase effectiveness and prevention.
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